The importance of learning to play on all surfaces as a junior tennis player can’t be stressed enough. Learning to play on all surfaces will cause your game to not only be more well rounded, but will also greatly improve your match strategy. As you learn different styles for different surfaces, you will find that they eventually translate into your game for all surfaces and you will become a world class player who has many options during the course of a match. Watch this video and start today!

Have you ever lost a tight match because you were not as fit as you needed to be to play your best? Are you as strong as you need to be to beat the next level of players in your age division? If so, keep doing what you’re doing. If not, watch this short post about getting more fit. And check out the interview Jay Travis did with one of the top fitness trainers in professional tennis on the JuniorTennisShow.com Steve Siebold ( 2:00 )

Most junior tennis players spend their time training on one surface, but drilling and playing matches on different surfaces will make you a more well-rounded player. Ever surface has different characteristics that will improve your overall game. Watch this short video as we discuss the advantages of this strategy. Steve Siebold ( 2:26 )

Ah, the dreaded rain delay. It’s 3-3 in the third, and it suddenly starts pouring! Two hours later you’re sluggish, tired, and unfocused from listening to your iPod and lounging around the club waiting for the courts to dry. Watch this short video post on how to handle and hopefully win more rain delayed matches. Steve Siebold ( 2:50 )

Are you dreaming of playing tennis in college? Maybe your goal is to land a lucrative scholarship…or to use college to launch your pro career. Whatever your results as a junior, you should consider a college tennis career. To make sure you choose the right school requires planning, persistence, and basic marketing strategy. This short video post at filmed at Yale University will help you move closer to your college dreams. For my complete interview with Yale University Tennis Coach Alex Dorato, visit the JuniorTennisShow.com Steve Siebold ( 2: 38 )

As the parent of a junior tennis player, I’m sure you’ve considered the long term impact of your child’s junior tennis experience. For a child who simply enjoys the game and friendly competition, the experience is easy to navigate as a parent. The secret is to keep it simple and make sure your child is having fun. Parenting a child who has a burning desire to win matches is much more complex. To this child, the junior tennis experience is extreme, and will undoubtedly be the most important overall education of his/her childhood. I’m not exaggerating. I know dozens of junior players I grew up with in the 1970’s that leveraged the lessons they learned on the court into world-class success in business and life. I also know former national champions that were pushed so hard by their parents that they turned to drugs and crime. Two of them are serving life sentences, and their crimes were the manifestation of the frustration they experienced in junior tennis, most of which came from overly ambitious expectations placed on them by their parents. These players made their own decisions and are responsible for their actions, but their parents set them on a collision course at an early age. Being a competent junior tennis parent is an important job that will impact your child for the rest of his/her life. Watch this short video and make a decision today to be the most educated, informed tennis parent on the junior circuit. Your son/daughter will thank you for the rest of your life. Steve Siebold ( 6:30 )

Christy Hey is right: doubles is key in college tennis, and every college coach looks for people who can play doubles. In this short video, I expand on Christy’s advice on how to sell yourself to college coaches. This information will give you an edge on your competition. Steve Siebold ( 5:27 )

This is the final deadly mistake in this series of 7, and it’s probably the most important. I’ve seen hundreds of new and experienced junior tennis parents make this mistake, and it’s one that could negatively affect your child for the rest of his/her life. Steve Siebold

Have you ever wondered if you should play other sports besides tennis as a junior tennis player? According to top tennis experts, playing other sports helps to make you a more well rounded player. In fact many of the top players grew up playing multiple sports because of the added benefits. Christy Hey discusses how other sports can help add more agility, balance, and endurance to your tennis game. Listen to this blog and let us know what you think!

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The Junior Tennis Show is a video magazine designed to help competitive junior players and their parents make their junior tennis years the most positive experience of their childhood, adolescence and early adult life. Experts in the junior tennis world agree that inexperienced parents are the number one challenge for both players and coaches and the primary cause of both short and long term burn out among competitive players.